Class PdfExtractor

PdfExtractor class

Represents base functionality to extract text, images, and other types of content that may occur on the pages of PDF documents.

public abstract class PdfExtractor : IDisposable, IPlugin

Methods

Name	Description
Dispose()	Implementation of IDisposable. Actually, it is not necessary for PdfExtractor.
Process(IPluginOptions)	Starts PdfExtractor processing with the specified parameters.

Remarks

The TextExtractor object is used to extract text, or ImageExtractor to extract images.

Examples

The example demonstrates how to extract text content of PDF document.

// create TextExtractor object to extract PDF contents
using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor())
{
    // create TextExtractorOptions object to set instructions
    textExtractorOptions = new TextExtractorOptions();
    
    // add input file path to data sources
    textExtractorOptions.AddInput(new FileDataSource(inputPath));
    
    // perform extraction process
    ResultContainer resultContainer = extractor.Process(textExtractorOptions);
    
    // get the extracted text from the ResultContainer object
    string textExtracted = resultContainer.ResultCollection[0].ToString();
}

See Also

• interface IPlugin
• namespace Aspose.Pdf.Plugins
• assembly Aspose.PDF